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About Taken Down

Taken Down is a crime-drama series set in Dublin. The first series investigates the violent death of a young Nigerian migrant found abandoned close to a Direct Provision Centre, where refugees await the hope of asylum. The investigation brings us into a twilight world of the new Ireland, where slum landlords and criminals prey on the vulnerable.

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